This Sunday's gospel says that Peter, John, and James "fell silent" after witnessing Jesus' Transfiguration. President Barack Obama has invited Republicans and Democrats to speak up on health-care reform during a high-stakes televised "summit" Thursday.

This Sunday's reading from the Letter to the Philippians criticizes those who are "occupied with earthly things." The European Union (EU) finds itself occupied with the eroding value of its currency this week.

The land the Lord promises to Abram "as a possession" in this Sunday's first reading may have become a powerful kingdom by the 10th century before Christ. Ancient fortifications uncovered by an archeologist in Jerusalem could support the notion that King Solomon headed a central government with sufficient resources to build such structures, ...

The Lord is "my life's refuge," says the psalmist this Sunday. Mother Mary MacKillop, who founded a religious order, the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, that offered refuge, shelter, and education to impoverished children across the Australian Outback in the 1800s, will become that nation's first Catholic saint in October.

"We cannot preach temperance from a bar stool."

More than three quarters of Americans get to work by driving alone. Only 10.4 percent carpool, and 4.9 percent use mass transit.